Hillary Rodham Clinton has other things to do this fall -- like campaigning and raising money for senate candidates -- but Barack Obama and Joe Biden need her to save them from Sarah Palin.
The woman on the Republican ticket is now more popular than Barack Obama, according to Rasmussen Reports. And Obama appears to be growing irritable.
CNN's Amy Holmes notes the supreme awkwardness of Obama's dependence on Hillary to save him (and all the Democrats who once trashed the nation's first viable woman candidate!) from Sarah Palin:
McCain has a strong woman? Well, the Obama campaign wants voters to know they’ve got one, too, and they’re going to deploy her to crush the moose hunting hockey mom from Alaska. In a strange twist of logic, the Obama campaign is touting the woman they passed over as the woman they need to beat the woman the other guy picked.
The New York Times reports that “Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention, will serve as a counterpoint to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday, Obama aides said.”
So, let’s get this straight. They didn’t choose her and her 18 million voters to put on the ticket. They gave the VP spot to Joe Biden. But now that Sarah Palin has arrived on the political scene, they’re promoting Hillary as the female answer to the Republican VP nominee. Awkward, to say the least.
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